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Holy Ground American synagogues are closing at a record rate. This retired judge is rescuing their stained glass windows.
Inside a Chicago synagogue, retired judge Jerry Orbach has built a refuge for the stained glass of America’s vanishing Jewish communities
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Books Kafka and Chicago taught him to love literature, Rodney Dangerfield taught him how to live it
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Culture She was my Hebrew school bully — and I finally learned what happened to her
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Culture On the northwest side of Chicago, my old Jewish neighborhood may soon live on in infamy
Albany Park was home to Rosenblum's Bookstore, Weinberg's Clothing — and also alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez
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Fast Forward A Chicago cinema canceled a pro-Israel movie screening, relented — then canceled again
“I’m extremely let down and exhausted,” said the rapper and filmmaker behind the movie, Kosha Dillz
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Fast Forward In Chicago, mayoral appointee resigns amid criticism for tearing down Israeli hostage poster
Ishan Daya apologized for tearing down the poster in 2023, whose wording he also called “racist and dehumanizing"
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